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It's not about purity, it's about options. The ClangBuiltLinux community advocated that Linux should not be dependent upon a single compiler. But when Rust ca
by edelsohn 3y ago
It's not about purity, it's about options. The ClangBuiltLinux community advocated that Linux should not be dependent upon a single compiler. But when Rust came along, suddenly many of the same people suddently decided that a single compiler was okay.
- rightbyte 3y agoI always understood it as that they want control over "best practice". A GNU compiler could add convenient feutures that the hardcore Rust users don't want other Rust users to be able to have. Like ideological purity.